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How not to shoot your slug gun
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plblark
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:38 am |
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Taking a carry class without having shot a gun before is just setting up future problems especially if the new shooter is even slightly nervous about guns.
I think it stands a decent chance to impede shooting prowess and progress since a Carry class in general is not the place to build shooting fundamentals. It can be done, and I've seen a couple good instructors spend the time and attention trying to do the best they could with the time available, but it's not optimal.
Not to be too harsh but it's each of our responsibility to take an active part in our own education. She was paying for the class, you or she should have clarified or specified. A little forethought and communication could go a long way. Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance as they say.
If the instructor, knowing she had no experience and having been asked to shoot a .22 demanded or insisted ona 9mm, then it's another issue.
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ttousi
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:43 am |
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Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:20 am Posts: 3311 Location: St. Paul, MN.
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gooseman wrote: it also didn't help that the person behind her hip checked her so she could not recoil all the way and the gun kept traveling. Bravo another person who should not teach girls how to shoot guns. That just frustrates me if you can't explain how to shoot the gun and make some one afraid of it you shouldn't tell them how to shoot it. This frustrates me because of the fact that the person in my wifes carry class new that my wife had not shot any gun before and had her shoot a 9mm he didn't tell her what to expect and she was very afraid of it and she moved into a .22 but now that i spent some time with her shooting and stepping her up in caliber she will shoot a 380 she decided.
All my new shooters start with a 22 then, when they are ready, they move up to larger caliber..........generally a full size with some weight to minimize recoil. Once they are ok with the larger caliber then maybe a lighter weight gun.
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someone1980
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:28 pm |
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Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:19 pm Posts: 2305
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*everyone* that we start, starts we a .22. Sometimes a rifle, sometimes a pistol but it is a .22. The 9mm with grip tape, tungsten guide rod, and light loads is a maybe.
The only time I have someone scared/hurt of a larger caliber, is when I handed a friend a bolt action .308 after we had been shooting semi-auto .223 all day. I handed him the rifle, then handed him a shell, he load the rifle. He has enough experience with these things to have known better, but he didn't put it into his shoulder well enough. I was looking at him thinking "hmm he isn't holding that right, nah he knows what he is doing". 10 seconds later we were trying to figure out if we had to take him to the hospital to get the gash in his forehead stitched or not. I still feel bad that I didn't say something.
Hmm... sort of a random story.
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EJSG19
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:14 pm |
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Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:44 pm Posts: 599
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Old thread, but simple answer.
Whoever the "teacher" was, should have never let her pull the trigger the way she was set up. Anyone could see she'd either fall over backward, catch the scope with her face, or at the least hurt her shoulder.
Won't beat a dead hourse, but the filmer and "helper" behind her didn't do her any favors. pathetic supervision of a new shooter...
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